A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.

America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.

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

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

So if we use birth control we don't need to be married?

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.