I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases. I don't think you can expect any American leader to wreck the economy, nor as an ally and a friend of America and a trading partner of America should you want us to wreck our economy.

There's a lot of people in the Middle East who are desirous to get into the Mitchell process. And - but first things first. The - these terrorist acts and, you know, the responses have got to end in order for us to get the framework - the groundwork - not framework, the groundwork to discuss a framework for peace, to lay the - all right.

Running for president was a good decision.

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

We`ll fight terrorists in Iraq, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.