We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

Please proceed, Governor.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.