The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.