Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.

Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.