On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism.

With Bill Clinton, there were things I had to have and things I couldn't have. Clinton had things he had to have and things he couldn't have. And there was space in the middle where you could have a deal.

Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

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

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.