President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.

Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.