My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

I`m a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I`ve always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the world. And Gary Johnson has influenced me on criminal justice reform. I think I had some influence in discussions with him about the approach to international affairs.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.