You need a 40-foot ladder to clean the gutters. I can't even pick up a 40-foot ladder.

Yet when the three principal fund-raisers involved whose actions have, I think, tainted the process do have Asian surnames, it creates a linkage that unfairly treats an entire community and that's deeply regrettable.

I will reach out to John Kerry unless he reaches out to me first.

If you examine the reasons why we were so successful on November 3rd, ... it had everything to do with winning the ground war. We were outspent by $110 million yet we won the ground war. We invested resources wisely; we won the right races in the right places.

We want to make sure we are able to provide the kind of technical services to candidates and state parties and fully execute [a] bold political plan, and we want to do that at the same time we make regular, substantive payments [on the debt].

This is an issue of principle, not money, ... If ten and a half million legal permanent residents pay taxes, play by the rules, work hard and are involved in the fabric of American life, then these people ... should have the right and the opportunity to participate.