The Democratic Party is getting very angry and that came through clearly in this election.
Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
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.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
I'm an American first and I think that's how most people are.
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
If you're a governor of a big state people sense your presence a little bit even your fellow governors.
George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
Well my wife Cathy Gillespie worked for Joe Barton who was running for Congress in 1984.
When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
One is that President Clinton in his first two years of his term did not govern as he had campaigned.
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
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.
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
Frankly I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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.
People like passion in politics.
Even as a partisan Republican I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
Well I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
Politics swings like a pendulum.