There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.