For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly, people see these issues as probably the clearest window into somebody's temperament, their judgment, whether they're steady or volatile.