That all depends on what "is" is.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

I have never had sex with that woman, Hillary Clinton.

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.