We've seen a barrage of ads from Michael Bloomberg saying everything is O.K. Democrats know that's never good enough. ... We are all 100 percent committed to making billionaire Michael Bloomberg a one-term mayor.

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

You had both Republicans and Democrats saying we need to balance the budget. How can we afford to do this? It really did come down to a matter of priorities. I think the process worked.

John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

There has never been anywhere in the court documents, or anywhere else, the allegation that he spied for anyone else, but this is what Jonathan Pollard is up against,