We must reject the idea of isolationism, ... But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

We handed this administration the most favorable foreign policy cards of any administration since World War II and unfortunately one-by-one-by-one they frittered them away.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

We didn't have to be in this position. If we had a strong, decisive commander in chief with a strong foreign policy, I am convinced we wouldn't be on the verge of basically going to war over there,