We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

Competition's a good thing.

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

It's time the government stopped using taxes to reward winners and losers in love.