We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

Competition's a good thing.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.