Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

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Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.