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I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.