The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the places where the strictest gun control measures, whether it be California, Los Angeles, Barack Obama's home state in Chicago, they're a disaster, and they have the greatest rules in the world.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

The president has said Republicans want dirty air and dirty water.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.