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As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

I've been a Republican since age 13, when we got our first television set, and I saw the Republican National Convention on television. And President Eisenhower was talking about personal responsibility, about opening the door for opportunity and that people could really take care of themselves without a lot of government intrusions.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

For a label for me, 'conservative' is more appropriate than 'Republican.'

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'

When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.