The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

My decision to appoint an inspector is not taken lightly. I hope it sends a strong signal that robust processes are in place to investigate allegations of failures in financial management and governance in local government.

If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated ways to monetize Facebook data, and told me that Russian agents in the Kremlin's employ would be buying Facebook ads to subvert American democracy, I'd have asked where your tin-foil hat was.