The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility,

It's now up to $700 billion. We ought to cancel it, go back to square one.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

There's one big difference between me and the others -- I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

There's one fundamental problem with it (the strategy), and that is whether the Iraqis are capable of carrying out their own military responsibilities, ... General Casey, you're taking a very big gamble here. I hope you're correct. I don't see the indicators yet that we are ready to plan or begin troop withdrawals given the overall security situation, and that isn't just my opinion alone.