I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

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

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

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.

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.

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