Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

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.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

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

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

I believe in traditional marriage.

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.