We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President’s unilateral intervention in Iraq?
I’m not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I’m not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.
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.
America is a conservative country with a small “c” – they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.
America’s greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it’s in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it’s in the strength of our democracy.
We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.
If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.
What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.
There are definitely some people who cheat, but how come we’re only focusing on people who are on welfare who cheat, and not the bank presidents who cheat?
There’s been more than one time when I’ve said something, and sort of the middle of what I’ve said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.
The corporatization of the press really has hurt the press.
And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.
I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.
It is true that there’s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America’s security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.
The real truth is, there’s no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they’re all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.
The war in Iraq was unwinnable.
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.