I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

I supported the assault weapon ban.

What I can tell you is I'm not running for president. I'm not going to run for president. I'm going to support one of these four people to be our nominee. I'm supporting three of them right now. And that means that we're going to get one of those people as our nominee.

I said those things about gay rights and abortion on opposite day. I cannot BELIEVE you don't have opposite day in North Carolina!

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

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).