We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

I'm a committed Republican. I believe very strongly in individual liberty. I tend not to think much in terms of group politics. I really am a kind of small government person and I'm most certainly a fiscal conservative and strong on national defense.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.