Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.

I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.