I have never been opposed to earmarks.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

[The administration has] bought into the idea this should be a bottom-up thing, ... The danger is confusion, inefficiency and huge bureaucratic frustration.