I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

[James] Comey's got a good background but there's nothing there, so far as it appears. Nothing there. So he wrote the letter to the eight Republican committee members copied to the Democrats saying 'you know some emails have turned up, we've looked at a lot of emails now it turns out there are even more emails - we don't know what's there, so there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that could be of interest to anyone until we conduct our multi-week, multi-month investigation.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.