Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.