We Do Always Have To

You Know, We Did A Good Job In Containing The Soviet Union, But We Made A Lot Of Mistakes, We Supported Really Nasty Guys, We Did Some Things That We Are Not Particularly Proud Of, From Latin America To Southeast Asia, But We Did Have A Kind Of Overarching Framework About What We Were Trying To Do That Did Lead To The Defeat Of The Soviet Union And The Collapse Of Communism. That Was Our Objective. We Achieved It.

Let's Stop For A Second And Remember Where We Were Eight Years Ago [in 2008]. We Had The Worst Financial Crisis, The Great Recession, The Worst Since The 1930s. That Was In Large Part Because Of Tax Policies That Slashed Taxes On The Wealthy, Failed To Invest In The Middle Class, Took Their Eyes Off Of Wall Street, And Created A Perfect Storm.

We're Living In A Technological World. You Cannot Tell Me We Can't Do A Better Job Getting That Information.

We Would Very Much Like To See Iran Take A Position As A Responsible Leader That Doesn't Intimidate Or Threaten Or Scare Its Neighbors And Others. But The Choice Is Really Up To Iran And We're Going To Keep Working To Try To Come Out With The Right Decision.

I'm Thrilled The President [barack Obama] Has Endorsed Me. We Started Off As Fierce Competitors, And We've Ended Up As True Friends And Partners And Worked Together On So Many Important Issues.