“And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They’ve seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.”

It’s a huge gap in security, it’s a huge problem we’ve had with our immigration system for many years.

We are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King’s dream.

A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas.

All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan basis, and we need the president Trump help.

They’re essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor.

If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

We need Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to fashion a very comprehensive pushback to Russia, not just the cyber-hacking, but their bribery of officials in Europe, their social media campaign, their overt media campaign.

And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.

The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they’re the best intelligence gatherers in the world.

Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.

Frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King’s faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

That bomb that took down that Russian airliner may have been the size of a soda can. And that bomb killed more people than all the Paris attackers combined. So this is still a grave threat.

We already know that there are those close to James Comey who have a very different take, if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it,

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before.

These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.