We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.