I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

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

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.