I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

We are an unfinished nation.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.