I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

Convert to IRA-based system.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.