When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Politics swings like a pendulum.
People like passion in politics.