While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

I like to stay home with my family.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.