With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.

I wanted the person with the Southern accent to be the smartest person in the room.

Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right.

I believe he believes in shrinking the social or political footprint of the court. But can you think of any current justices, right or left, who believe the same thing?

I first started reading about Barack and taking notes when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 because I was embarrassed that, at that point, I knew virtually nothing about him.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.