I am a deficit hawk.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council’s call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate – and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

I don’t pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

There’s overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

Cheney, Cheney, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn’t feel right.

You can’t fall back on the private sector and say, ‘You take care of the nation’s banking system.’ That’s a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.