For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.