My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.