Arnold Schwarzenegger said it best: "Your son is sick. Ninety-eight doctors give you one diagnosis, two doctors give you another. Who are you going to go with?" Well, why would it be the conservative position to go with the two? That's not conservative, that's crazy.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us, may be nothing, it may be a lot. I think that really depends how they find their voice and what they see as their real interest, and hopefully that would be for more schools and not more tanks.