I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

I try to hold my charisma in check.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

At the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border. [I] would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do.

Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.