Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 2000;49-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.

The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.