The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.

Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not a bad egg, you know? Not a bad egg is a pretty high compliment in American politics, given the toxic atmosphere in which we currently dwell.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.

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

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