I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

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