Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion

The era of big government is over.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.