We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.

Let's not do that. Let's love people. Let's care about people. Let's repeal it now while we can.