I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.

With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.