Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

The peace dividend is peace.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.