Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.