Sometimes 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.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.

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

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

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