We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

I don't use labels a lot.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

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.