If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

In Europe and the United States, you’ve got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush’s watch as ‘deficits as far as the eye can see.’ But Mr. Obama’s budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

If there’s a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

And I think there’s something about conservatives frankly – and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you’d find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

I think it’s dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they’ve been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn’t really ‘empathy’ and ‘understanding.’ He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

I know enough about European politics to know you’ve got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.