I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.