A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

If you look at history, every major realignment in our politics is a joining together of a new generation and emerging technologies. Obama has been a pioneer in joining the powers of the Internet with the principles of community organizing. Howard Dean used the Internet for meetups - Obama used it to create a movement.

I think it's particularly raw coming the day after the Electoral College, and Bill Clinton, he's taking this hard. It's been very hard to him. He thought his wife was gonna win. He believed she should have won. I think he believes, basically, it was an unfair result.

There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.