I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.