Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.