I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.