"I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas."

"A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history."

"President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation."

"The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk."

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole."

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."