Politician

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

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 my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.

We won't always have the strongest military.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.