There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid.

I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.