To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

We need to be asking for the vote in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.