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

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

We are being Americans when we hold our government to account. We are being false to our troops when we send them to a needless war, betraying their trust when we shortchange them on protective equipment, and cheating them when we silently cut their benefits.

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

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.