Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.