My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.