Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

The silence killed your faith.

He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.