Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

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

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.