Bill Bennett: “I thought it was, if not a racist comment, a way out-of-touch comment.”

I hope that the economy does recover. That may not serve the narrow interests of the party, but I do hope the economy does recover for the sake of the country.

I know what we've been doing for the last eight years is not working very well.

Look, there's one huge dominating issue in America right now. And that is the deficits and the economy and that's got everybody's attention, properly so.

But the way to deal with false impressions is with the truth, with true impressions.