Quotes from Robert C. O'Brien

We want to have a great relationship with the Chinese, we want a great relationship with the Russians.

President Trump's efforts have made the American people safer and our nation stronger.

I believe that in America, freedom and individual liberty will, in the end, always triumph over class division and collectivism with voters of all stripes.

The United States always maintains the right to self-defense.

Modern warfare is increasingly expeditionary and requires platforms with extended range, flexibility and endurance.

Ventilators can be reused but hospitals need a sufficient supply to treat critically ill patients while still allowing enough time for each ventilator to be refurbished between patients.

As it seeks to rule the seas once again, China desires tangible symbols of its past as a naval power. Finding a sunken Chinese ship or coins in Kenyan waters would be powerful in this regard.

The American voter knows that we cannot protect the seas and our interests overseas unless we have ships that can fight and deliver Marines and carrier-based fighter jets to the world's hot spots.

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

No, I don't think there's systemic racism.

Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become the preeminent power in the region.

There is no doubt that there are some racist police, I think they're the minority, I think they're the few bad apples and we need to root them out.

I haven't seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything to attempt to get President Trump reelected.

President Trump has demonstrated to Russia that he means what he says about putting 'America First.'

President Trump is committed to democracy and rule of law in our hemisphere.

I don't want foreign governments to support President Trump to influence our elections.

Rubio and Cruz bring with them only in America personal stories that rival the 'log cabin' narratives of presidential candidates the 19th Century. They are Hispanic-American children of immigrants.

When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.

By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away.

Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of us?unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of course, can happen to people, too.

The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to go back to living in a sewer-pipe? And eating other people's garbage? Because that's what rats do. But the fact is, we aren't rats anymore. We are something Dr. Schultz has made. Something new.

C'était, pensa-t-elle, comme un doux peigne passant dans son cerveau, redressant les pensées et défaisant les nÅ"uds.

There were two sets of encyclopedias that had sections on rats. From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs. That seemed strange to us, and unjust. [...] But people think we spread diseases, and I suppose possibly we do, though never intentionally, and surely we never spread as many diseases as people themselves do.

Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless.