I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Hope is not a strategy.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but...

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.