It's no accident that the fastest growing states with the best economies are all led by Republican governors.

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

My agenda for national public service would provide a pathway to the middle class for all Americans and would ensure that those who dedicate themselves to their communities are rewarded for their efforts.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.

It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

In revering the Founders, we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make improvements - necessary improvements - in the republican experiment they began.

I am committed to elevating our public schools.

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

Your average Republican member of Congress, if you played a word association game with them and said, 'Latino,' they're going to respond 'illegal immigrant,' as opposed to 'sergeant major' or 'surgeon' or 'professor.'

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.