It's to the benefit of our party to have people talking about reform, quality education ... bedrock Republican principles.

The American people are simply not going to trust their security to a defeatist party that continues to demonstrate its pre-9/11 mentality and fundamental misunderstanding of the war on terror.

Senator Clinton's political attacks ignore the reality that Republican policies have generated more than 4.6 million jobs since May 2003, created a Department of Homeland Security, and invested record funding to protect cities throughout our country.

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.

When Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party and joined the Reform Party, he had a wonderful opportunity to provide leadership to [a wide base],