I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.