I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

I have never been one to look beyond today.