"I have been very happy in the House of Representatives."

"I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago."

"As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life."

"Debates, I hate."

"You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't."

"I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope."

"We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation."

"We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation."

"You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize."

"No, I'm not anguished and tormented."

"I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing."

"Losing is tough."

"I don't write letters anymore."

"I like paper."

"I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money."

"We're in a tight spot!"

"I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more."

"Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing."

"On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else."

"I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes."

"I'm really white trash."

"Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting."

"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us."

"My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much "success" without a certain amount of compromise."