People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.