Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.