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

One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.

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

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.