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.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

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.