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.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

I come from the school of thought that says when people have more money in their pocket during economic times, it increases demand or investment. Small businesses begin to grow, and jobs are added.

There's just something about this job as president every president faces, you know, that you think one thing going in and then the pressures of the job or the realities of the world, you know, are different than you thought.

I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.