I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.