I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.

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

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

There's just something about this job as president every president faces, you know, that you think one thing going in and then the pressures of the job or the realities of the world, you know, are different than you thought.