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

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

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

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.

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

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.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.