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.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

Apologized for saying Barack Obama was clean and articulate.

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.