The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.