I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.