I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.
I discourage a cult of personality.
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.