[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

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.

Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.

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

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.

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.