I do believe that Anderson and the way he gains political power and gains political capital, rebuilds his stock is to be more forceful and bolder on both immigration, where he's got a reasonable position and on energy.

I'm afraid that there are a lot of democrats who now believe it's better to have an issue than to have a bill.

The best leaders are the ones, historically, who have looked ahead, you know, looked over the horizon.

Well, it is true that, you know, with the coming of what's called -- now called the permanent campaign, and that is, as soon as people get elected, they start running for the office for the next time out.

It's harder. It's tougher to sustain. It's tougher to put a plan out there that will get support.

That's what happened when Franklin Roosevelt came in. The country was terribly depressed. And he came in and, with a single speech, his inaugural address, began turning it around.

I think it's a natural response to what happened with the shooting, and also now with the gas prices being where they were.

one of the big judgments we're going to make in the upcoming presidential campaign is, are people going to campaign on the future and have real plans, and then get a mandate for change, or are they simply going to campaign by gouging the…

that's the kind of rancid politics that I think just turns everybody off, and it does make it hard to plan for the future.

We've moved in the wrong direction over the last 30 years, not the right direction.

I would think the administration is going to have to be very careful now about its rhetoric on Iran and whether it doesn't want to keep this at a low simmer, not a high boil in terms of the politics of it because this is a difficult…

Now our security is tied in because you know, Anderson, we're even more dependent on foreign oil today than we were back 30 years ago.