I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next generation of technological innovation. But we can't unleash private capital because of what the government is doing to stifle innovation and to choke competition.

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.