He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.