Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

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.

If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because it's not a medical reality - when in fact it clearly affects your interaction with the entire world around you - is just frankly reactionary.

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.