In retrospect, we were wrong, because what happens, once you go to a mandate, you have turned so much power over the government that the politicians rather than the doctors end up defining health care. And so, it was a mistake.

You look at Ron Paul's total record of systemic avoidance of reality, and you look at his newsletters, and then you look at his ads. His ads are about as accurate as his newsletter.

In retrospect we were wrong because what happens, once you go to a mandate, you have turned so much power over to the government that the politicians rather than the doctors end up defining health care. And so it was a mistake.

No. I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

I think it would be great to find a way to get every American covered. I think that would be better for the country. Can you do that without a mandate?

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

I think you've got to require everybody to either have insurance or to post a bond. But the fastest growing section of the uninsured is people over $75,000 income who are making a calculated gamble that if they get sick, you'll take care…

Your plan essentially is one more big government, bureaucratic, high-cost system, which candidly could not have been done by any other state because no other state had a Medicare program as lavish as yours, and no other state got as much…

I agree that all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. And I think that there are ways to do it that make most libertarians relatively happy. I have said consistently we ought to have some requirement, you either have…

I am an agent of real change. I actually want to change the way Washington works.

Watch TV here for two days. You've had all sorts of people and all sorts of these super-pacs who have consistently been running negative ads. Well, you get enough negative ads before you start answering them. Your numbers go down for a…

Watch TV here for two days. You've had -- YOU'VE HAD all sorts of people and all sorts of these super-PACs who have consistently been running negative ads.