“America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.” — George W. Bush

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.