The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

I did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.

We need to have strong allies. Our association and connection with our allies is essential to America's strength. We're the great nation that has allies, 42 allies and friends around the world.

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.