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

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

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.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

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

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.