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.

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

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

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

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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.