Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

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?

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

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.