When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.

Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.