Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I'm going with the Sisters.

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none ... so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

This is something - we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'