We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

Life's real victories must be shared.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.