Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

'Never give in' was my mindset.