Hatred can rot a person’s wisdom and conscience. An enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation and inflame brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and hinder a country’s advance toward freedom and democracy.

It is a grave indictment of this international community that we can spend so much money on war, in fact trillions are spending on war, but we cannot support action that needs to be taken to meet the most basic needs of billions of people in the world, needs such as addressing hunger, health, empowering woman and making sure that there is development in countries that are vulnerable.

Their argument is that it’s better to put these decisions in the hands of the states. Have you seen some of our states? If Florida could make their own decisions, it would be legal to bring an alligator into a strip club.

It’s the worst humanitarian and human rights crisis in a decade, when both sides have committed serious crimes.

We could become a failed state.

We must actively look for measures to secure our military’s own forces to deter and effectively deal with North Korea’s nuclear threats.

We’re here to defend Venezuela; that’s what we were elected to do. Even if it costs us our lives.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice – in an unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands. And we will use it to light up the world.

This was a mission that was started before I got here. This was something that was, you know, just they wanted to do. They came to see me. They explained what they wanted to do, the generals, who are very respected. My generals are the most respected that we've had in many decades, I believe. And they lost Ryan.