I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.

Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.