I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

People like passion in politics.

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

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

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.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.