In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

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.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.