If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

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.

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

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

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

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

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