I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

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).

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.