Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

USA has gone from Barney Fife to Barney Frank.

We need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. When people will behead a child, and when people will leave people starving on top of a mountain without food or water - 40,000 of them - I don't care what religion it is: It's evil.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.