“If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, ‘the public option,’ or ‘a public option,’ you’ll get 100 different impressions about what that means.”

I’m conservative on some issues, and I’m progressive on others.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe’s fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.