My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

Hopefully I'm not a grumpy old guy sitting in the corner, yelling at people and demanding things.

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

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.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.