I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be a leader here because you're not going to be using ideas, you're not going to have innovation, you're not going to fully develop your people. And if you're working in a group and you don't challenge, then you're not really doing your job.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.