Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.