Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.