The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

John McCain's complaint is we're either not at war somewhere, or if we're at war, we leave too soon. So we're not there soon enough, and he wants us to stay forever wherever we send troops.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.