Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

The private sector is doing fine.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.