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.

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

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

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.

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

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 think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.