If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.