Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position.

It is perfectly American to be wrong.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.