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

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.