This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty hard experience. He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.