Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.