All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you.

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

You serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.