Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.