Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.

Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.

The Iranians are not going to cede any kind of power. They're not going to cede any kind of control. [Hassan] Rouhani used to be the nuclear negotiator. Any YouTube saying this is our mission to become nuclear. He's not going to change his mind.

Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.

We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.

Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.

I think the liberals are going to try to blame - and they already are - this entire mess on the right and on President [George W.] Bush. I think Republicans dropped the ball on actually articulating why we got into this economic mess, but it's not too late.