Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.

When people think, Democrats win.

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.