Quotes by Robert C. O'Brien

The worst kidnapper of Americans is a nation state - Iran.

Iran has pursued a deliberate policy of kidnapping and unjustly detaining innocent Americans since the very beginning of its revolutionary regime.

Relations between the United States and Iran can improve but will not get better so long as innocent Americans are held hostage.

The men appear to have a special blend of GOP DNA: Rubio and Cruz appeal to both the key social conservative and defense hawk wings of GOP with their respective 98 percent and 100 percent lifetime American Conservative Union ratings.

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.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

It is hard for anyone born after 1945 to imagine a world where the oceans - the global commons - are not open for trade and commerce or where freedom of navigation is imperiled.

As the Navy gets smaller, the world's oceans are becoming more dangerous.

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

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.