According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We just need to make sure that we get somebody in there that respects the Constitution, respects the rule of law, that restores the proper balance between the states and federal government. I have great confidence Jeb Bush would do that.

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the reasons for that is it's borrowed from other cultures along the way, back to Mosaic law, the Greek age of reason, Roman law and the Roman order of government, and the Republican form of government, by the way that we're guaranteed in our constitution.