We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

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.

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

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.

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.

Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!

I run five miles three times a week I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

The way that I approach helping is to first make sure that I understand.

The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

Heaven is a house with porch lights.

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.