I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.