I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...

One thing I have learnt in this life, is that you got to have Jesus.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.