You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.