My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

Getting someone to do something they were not planning on doing. Convincing someone to buy into something they never knew they were looking for. That is persuasion.

In persuasion there is no clock; there is an acquired sense of when there is an opening and an even more acquired sense of when to step into that opening.

You own every declarative comment that comes out of your mouth, but with questions you have an out. Because of that, questions are perhaps first and foremost the safest route in the art of persuasion.

I don’t have an issue with whether – from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don’t have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don’t want to do it then don’t run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

I don’t like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

There’s no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.