In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

I am very much in favor of tax cuts.

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.