The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.
Juan WilliamsIn black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
Juan WilliamsIn 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
Juan WilliamsIn 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.
Juan WilliamsSometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
Juan WilliamsHikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
Juan WilliamsIn other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.
Juan Williams