Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

The majority of [the troops in Iraq] is that feel they're doing the right thing and their parents who have also made sacrifices, generally speaking, and their proud of the services of their sons and daughters.

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now.