I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

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

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.