One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.
Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out t...
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.
Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.
Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.
I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.
Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
