Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I would see.

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.