To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.