Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that today with the federal tax rate at 35 percent that that's more than the government ought to be taking from any individual regardless of how much they make.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

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.

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.

I`m not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I`m, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.

Negative politics have always been around.