“Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.”

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.

Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I’ve learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I’m the only one that does that.

The most important conversation is the one you have with yourself.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can’t have a decent conversation with!

I like to say now that the reason I’m conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.