I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.

Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.