When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didnt just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.