It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

I'm the master of low expectations.

I make decisions based on what I think is best for the country.

If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the current rate of increase. If you're a wealthier worker, your benefits would increase at the rate of inflation. And those changes would affect positively the unfunded liabilities inherent in Social Security.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."