I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.