Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.