If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

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

Politics swings like a pendulum.

I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

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

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.