People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

So long as I'm the president, we will. I clearly see the challenge. I see the challenge of what these threats pose to our homeland, and I see the challenge of what these threats pose to the world.

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate - you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer - the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much.