Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

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.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

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.