I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.