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.

Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

[A senior Administration official says that telephone calls and e-mails exchanged between several suspected terrorists and intercepted by the U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies pointed to a plot inside the U.S. using nerve gas, poisons or radiological devices.] It wasn't just chatter, ... It was a pattern.