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

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

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

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.