You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.

Only the police should have handguns.

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.