"I think a lot of things could be handled locally."
"I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities."
"I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form."
"I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race."
"Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?"
"I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person."
"I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids."
"Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits."
"The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did."
"Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs."
"Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so."
"I don't plan on being bashful."
"I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in."
"I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me."
"People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular."
"You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it."
"Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate."
"If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut."
"Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'"
"We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government."
"What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget."
"You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you."
"You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president."
"You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party."
"You don't go into politics unless you want to win."
