As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.