"There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people."

"The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama."

"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."

"I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing."

"Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us."

"On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut."

"De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself."

"Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair."