They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide.