There's still three more years. Look, this has been a rough patch, as rough as this modern-day Republican Party has been through in 30 years. But while this has been going on, look at the other side of the aisle, no leaders, no ideas, no agenda.

The front-runner in the Republican party will be John McCain, based on his performance at the convention, support for Bush and his polling numbers both nationally and in the early primary states, ... His favorable rating [in national voter surveys] is at about 70 percent among Republicans, Democrats and independents, which is kind of unique.

This is a bittersweet day for me, ... I would have liked my Republican Party to be in the forefront of this issue.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.