I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be.

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

Drill here, drill now, pay less.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.