The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.

We need to deter Putin from further actions because this is a very real threat.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.