For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.