I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.