People like passion in politics.

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

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

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.

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 highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

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