The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.

We cannot allow our Republican party to be based on what Olympia Snowe and Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln may or may not do. What's smart about that? You do that, build a strong future on a foundation with unreliable keystones.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

Washington, DC does not have to live with much of what they produce legislatively for us.

My dad and some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could. I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time, but still, the concept that there's a great land of opportunity out there, and all you have to do is go attack it, was not something foreign to me. It's why I'm one of the few members of my family that left home.

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'