I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.

This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.

Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots - where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That's the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.