The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is that the Senate will act on its constitutional responsibility and give its advice and consent. No one is required to vote for the nominee.

It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.

We're approaching being able to do a billion billion calculations per second, and that's the - that's the objective of our national labs. We're still not there. But with hundreds of millions of calculations per second.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.