I learned that you can go after things before you are ready and so if you are going after it, you need to make sure that your spirit is ready. I learned also how to surrender to His will and not mine. Sometimes when you are going through something - and I am a guy who runs campaigns - I can make this happen. There has never been a campaign where I was picked to win.. I was always coming from behind.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.