There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.