America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.

I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

Those who have come to the United States illegally should not be given amnesty or an easier path to citizenship over those already in line.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.