I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.