You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I'm not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don't know who the two party candidates are going to be.

You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.