From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

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

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.

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.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.