Tom Tancredo in 2007 GOP debate at St. Anselm College, sponsored by CNN & WMUR

On Environment: Conservative AND conservationist: use free market

A: There is nothing anti-conservative about conservation--[like] Teddy Roosevelt's national park system. To foster conservation, you do it through conservative principles. You make it profitable for people to make conservation an issue--[make policies] that hurts people in the pocketbook, or they can profit by getting involved in conservation. That's one way the free market really works perfectly.

On Immigration: Consequences of immigration bill are survival of the nation

A: They are incredible and they are disastrous. I have consistently tried to impress upon the American public the seriousness of this issue. We're not just talking about the number of jobs that we may be losing, or the number of kids that are in our schools and impacting our school system, or the number of people that are abusing our hospital system and taking advantage of the welfare system in this country--we're not just talking about that. We're talking about something that goes to the very heart of this nation-- whether or not we will actually survive as a nation. And here's what I mean by that. What we're doing here in this immigration battle is testing our willingness to actually hold together as a nation or split apart into a lot of Balkanized pieces.

On Immigration: No campaign ads in Spanish; preserve English

TANCREDO: No, I would not advertise in Spanish. Believe me when I tell you this--the preservation of the English language is important for us for a lot of reasons. It is the glue that keeps a country together, any country. Bilingual countries don't work, and we should not encourage it. McCain's immigration bill codifies Pres. Clinton's executive order that said all papers produced by the government have to be in various languages. No, it is absolutely wrong. English is the language of this country, and you know what, we should not be ashamed of that. It's a good thing and it holds us all together regardless of where we come from regardless of our backgrounds, our histories, it doesn't matter. We need that thing to hold us together.

McCAIN: Well, first of all, muchas gracias.

On Immigration: Enough is enough: timeout on LEGAL immigration

TANCREDO: It means, number one, cut from the past. If you come here as an immigrant, great. If you come here legally, welcome. It means you cut your ties with the past, familial, & especially political ties with the country from which you came. But let's be serious about this, you guys. We talk about all the immigration reform we want, and what it's got to get down to is this: Are we ready for a timeout? Are we actually ready to say, "Enough is enough"? We have to stop all legal immigration except for people coming into this country as family members, immediate family members, and/or refugees. We have got to actually begin the process of assimilating people who have come in this great wave of immigration. The process of assimilation is not going on. How long will it take us to catch up? I'll tell you this. It'll take this long: until we no longer have to press 1 for English and 2 for any other language.

On Immigration: FactCheck: McCain's bill does not codify federal non-English

On Principles & Values: As president, would tell Bush to never visit White House

A: Some time ago, 2003 I think it was, I got a call from Karl Rove who told me that because of my criticism of the president, I should never darken the doorstep of the White House. I have been so disappointed in the president, not just the immigration issue, but the massive increase in government that we call Medicare prescription drug, that I'm afraid, as president, I'd have to tell George Bush exactly the same thing Karl Rove told me.

On Principles & Values: Bush's mistake: ran as conservative; governed as a liberal

A: The biggest problem, I think, in this administration has been the fact that the president ran as a conservative and governed as a liberal. That is what has really been the basis, I think, of the distrust that has developed among the Republican base. It's well-founded. We have to do something about that.