The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.

I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history. We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war.

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.