George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

People like passion in politics.

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

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

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.