I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Government is dysfunctional.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.