Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

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

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

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

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