What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.

Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

I'm joyful in my religious belief.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change - I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.