Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

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.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.