A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

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

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

We spent $100 billion on education, saving the education system 300,000 teachers who were laid off because of the recession. We also put tens of thousands of lower income kids in college through Pell grants which has fundamentally all their opportunity. We did the same thing with regard to what we did on transportation. So we weren't just trying to - we knew we had to do something big to keep us from going over the cliff into a depression and pull us out of hole.

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.