I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

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.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.