I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

The way you act can sometimes be totally different from the way you actually are.

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

None of us really know where we're going.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

I'm always trying to do something active because I love it.

You don't let a historic site rot.