It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs.

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

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 will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.