I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
Negative politics have always been around.
Social Security is fine for those at or near retirement today. For those receiving their checks today, don't worry. It's going to be there for you. For those that are nearing their retirement years, don't worry, it's going to be there for you. But for your kids - for your boy and my boy, and for their children, for our kids and grandkids, it's a real big question as to whether or not the system's going to be there.
I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.
My Greek mythology is not strong enough.
Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.
I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.
Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that today with the federal tax rate at 35 percent that that's more than the government ought to be taking from any individual regardless of how much they make.
I believe in traditional marriage.
And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.
Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.
