I believe in traditional marriage.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.

It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.

Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.