"I've been through so many different political races."

"I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers."

"I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office."

"It's my job as governor to set a vision."

"Kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that."

"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics."

"I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history."