"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much."

"Only the elites despise earning money."

"I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran."

"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."

"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country."

"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."

"The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got."

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."