Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.

My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.

I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back.