I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.