Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.