It's a fundamental kind of character issue. You tell people where you are, and you let them decide whether they like your answer or not.

I am the chief executive, and I'm going to run the state until someone with the power tells me not to.

I love canoeing, and I love fishing.

My opponent would not answer the most simple and direct question.

We cannot take the progress we have made over the past four years and put it in the hands of the most persistent and vigorous opponent of that progress.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.