I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do.

In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.