I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

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.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

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