The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.

I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.

Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.