In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

Sons love moms forevermore.

If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict