Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.