Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.