This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.

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