"When a bully hits you, you hit that bully right back."
"When the president believes you have a major contribution to make to the welfare of our nation and to our nation's standing in the world, that is a calling that is important to heed."
"Get excited. Because I am just giddy. The idea we can now start to really govern. I've never known what it's like to have a Republican president."
"Not only was it against Federal law to transfer Guantanamo detainees into the United States--and has been since 2010--but why would anyone want to put terrorists in Charleston?"
"What company is going to invest in a State where they keep these heinous terrorists?"
"You are just putting another target, but now you are going to put it on Charleston, South Carolina."
"Guantanamo Bay is working."
"What does it do to the reputation of the State where you take these detainees?"
"The fear that every State has is, what is going to happen, when is it going to happen..."
"I would dare to say any Governor, Republican or Democrat, would not want these detainees in their State."
"If you go and you put these detainees in South Carolina, you have just created a magnet."