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.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

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.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.