Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

I was too important to go to Vietnam.

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.