In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.

What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership. The easiest business to get into is opening a fast-food franchise in the inner city.