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

I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding policies that have been accepted for literally generations. He thinks to concentrate unaccountable power in the Executive. He thinks you alter the laws so that, as Commander in Chief, he can determine, under what he says are wartime conditions, what the laws are, which laws should be enforced, and declare by fiat what our policy should be, even abrogating longstanding international treaties.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.