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

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

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

I am very much in favor of tax cuts.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.