"In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy."

"We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."

"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."

"It is a timeless truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it."

"Producing is just a big learning experience."