People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

People are always asking what it's like to have Paul ... The truth is that the image that Paul gives before the television and the press and on the track is completely the opposite of how he is in person.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.