Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

I believe when women succeed America succeeds!

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.