If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.