Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.

[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave it to FOX News. Also, we have this extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign that they hacked.

American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.