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On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.

If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.

We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.