I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.