If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of meeting.

He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.

I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the word of God. We're not telling preachers what they're supposed to say. We're saying it's part of our responsibility to get involved.

It's been fascinating to watch the Republican response to Al Gore's selection of me, ... Because, honestly, the areas where I agree with George Bush are so much the exception and not the rule.

[INDIANAPOLIS -- It's the kind of statement a politically safe Republican facing a perennial gadfly opponent in 2006 can make.] We're winning the war in Iraq, ... We've never lost a tactical engagement with the enemy. We've never even lost a platoon.

In Miami, there were only a couple thousand protesters in a city that is heavily Republican and includes a lot of right-wing terrorists. It was favorable territory for the police. They had the protesters outnumbered 10-1.