"If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'"

"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."

"The first thing the secretary types is the boss."

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen."

"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path."