The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.