There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

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

I beat a brain tumor.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

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.

'Never give in' was my mindset.

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.