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Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.

I have run campaigns. That doesn't make you the establishment.

You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.

I don't know if Gary Johnson is out there doing a campaign, actually. I think he's talking to press a little bit, but I don't think they hold events.

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.