politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

I think Obama was terribly sexist.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.