When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.

President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.