"My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States."

"In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East."

"Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything."

"Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth."

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

"Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth."

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."

"Fear cripples faster than any implement of war."

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

"It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature."

"Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."

"As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes."

"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work."

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars."

"I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow."

"It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones."

"If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?"

"I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

"Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision."

"'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it."

"I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay."

"Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected."