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I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

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.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

I am still a Republican. I have not changed that.