I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.