The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

I don't use labels a lot.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.