I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

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.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.