I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

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.

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

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.