As you already know, I have lots of thoughts about what we’ve done to ourselves as a country and what we’ve allowed to happen. But we’ll see where this goes. Whether you want to say it’s good or bad is irrelevant. But it was Keystone Kops, and that’s scary.

To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of Earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.

What I hope at the end of the day is that this really is about my eight years, and the bridge stuff is part of that, and the Trump stuff is part of that, but it’s only a part.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work--work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

This is a revolution, but we’re not afraid of revolutions when they are peaceful, well-thought and meant to last.

Unchecked overregulation by cities will turn the Texas miracle into the California nightmare.

I’ll be honest with you: When you're talking about cybersecurity, a lot of it is classified and we're not going to provide it.

I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job. My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.