If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.