The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

It is illegal for children to purchase tobacco in every state in the country. And in every state ... tobacco companies have invested enormous sums of money and time to encourage widespread lawbreaking.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.