I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.

I'm energetic and passionate about the needs - the things we need to fix. I don't feel old, I don't feel like yesterday's news.

The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.