The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make it work better and actually starting to open the agreement. I think, if you actually opened the agreement, I think you would get into a negotiation that - that would never terminate.

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.