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.

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.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

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

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.