Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

I can't hide my feelings.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.