It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of his idea of a war on terror to overshadow his actual conduct in office on the redistribution of wealth upward through progressive tax cuts that actually penalize the vast majority of the public, and shift their resources to a narrow band at the very, very top.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.