I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

I think democracy fails under a variety of conditions and one of the conditions occurs when people don't have the ability to get the kind of information they need to make up their mind. Ideologically, I don't care much for FOX News. But the truth is that, as long as there are countervailing points of view available on the spectrum, it doesn't matter.