We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.