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

I can't hide my feelings.

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.

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.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

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.