I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.

The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.

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

What I was saying is that Israel cannot count on the United States.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.