Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.