I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Well that's a bit of a question like saying, what have you learned in life that would help you lead? My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state. Those experiences in totality have given me an understanding of how America works and how the economy works.

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

I'm not a big-game hunter. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will.

Tomorrow we begin a new tomorrow.