When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Arafat was a barrier to peace.