At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.