I was too important to go to Vietnam.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index - and it's at a record high. It's going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - it's going to take a new president.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

I care about a hundred percent of the American people. I want a hundred percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.