They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

We are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.

We are an unfinished nation.

The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.

Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in prison camp.