In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.