I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

I worry that we're seeing a situation- Obama's administration not only committing us the huge deficits for the future, but is also redefining the relationship between government, on the one hand, and the private sector on the other.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11.