I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.