The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

My strategy is pretty straightforward, which is to go after the bad guys, to make sure we do our very best to interrupt them, to - to kill them, to take them out of the picture. But my strategy is broader than that. That's - that's important, of course. But the key that we're going to have to pursue is a - is a pathway to get the Muslim world to be able to reject extremism on its own.

I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.