If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.

Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.