I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.