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.

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

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

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

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.