The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we`ve had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he`s saying, No, we`re going to cut that back to only one conflict.