I used to love hand raising.

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.