I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

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.

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 believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.