The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.