The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to manufacture that which you're spending it on. You see, more money in the private sector circulating makes it more likely that our economy will grow. And, incredibly enough, some want to take away part of those tax cuts. They've been reading the wrong textbook. You don't raise somebody's taxes in the middle of a recession. You trust people with their own money. And, by the way, that money isn't the government's money; it's the people's money.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.