My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

John McCain has already tapped me.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.

Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.