I don't think you need a constitutional amendment. The states for 200 years have had the right to make this decision. And there is nothing to suggest that they're not up to the ability to make the decision.

If the amendment provides for partnership and civil union, which I believe is the appropriate way to extend rights that would be a good amendment.

While I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, for 200 years, this has been a state issue. I oppose this election year effort to amend the Constitution, and I will vote against such an amendment if it comes to the Senate floor.

I think George Bush is on the run. And I think he's on the run because he doesn't have a record to run on.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it just doesn't take a lot of fuzzy math to count to zero.

He has done an extraordinary job of invigorating a whole group of people who were divorced from the political process.

When you were asked by the 'Concord Monitor' about Osama bin Laden, you said we couldn't prejudge his guilt for September 11. What in the world were you thinking.

We have the same policy on trade.

I've always said these races are close.

They promised in the first tax they'd create 500,000 jobs. They lost a million or more. In the next tax cut, they promised another 800,000 jobs. They lost another two million.

I think you can't run for president cherry-picking states, picking up a delegate here or there. You have to run for president nationally. I've been the only one in recent weeks doing that and proving an ability to win nationally.