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" I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are. "

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" I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics. "

" I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality. "

" But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner. "

" Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now. "

" George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate. "

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" I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. "

" One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned. "

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" I believe we're the party of small business. "

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" I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man. "

" Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party. "

" I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. "

" We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. "

" So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset. "

" And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America. "

" The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes. "

" I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party. "

" I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion. "

" They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas. "