I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.