The pitfall of what's happening in the media is if you're under thirty, you get your news from the Internet and The Daily Show, and there's not much discrimination between what they find on the front page of The New York Times and what they find on the Internet. That's not a bad thing, in the sense that people don't get spoon - fed anymore.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

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.

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.