To suggest that it's OK to assassinate a president, I think is a felony. And I think that it should be.

We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

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.

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.