You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.