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

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.

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

People like passion in politics.

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.

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.

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