It'll be a flip-flop. But what he'll do is dress it up.

It -- you know, it will be a flip-flop. But what he will do is dress it up.

I want a truth commission to put all this out. I don't want my country to torture. I want my country to advance its national security, which torture does not.

I think, of those four, the best is to have some bipartisan, independent truth commission.

Lyndon Johnson used to say, 'I'd rather have him inside the tent on spitting out than outside the tent spitting in.'

The Republicans, they do need the president to stumble. They don't like to say that in public, but that's OK.

Yes, Arlen Specter was about a 64 percent vote reliable; 64 percent of the time he voted with his party as a Republican. I doubt he'll be much more loyal to the Democratic Party.

If we just have to stimulate the economy, Mr. President, they say, why don't you just focus on that?

It's guys like that that are going to bring the Republican Party back.

It seems to me he's making a mistake in saying he doesn't want some independent commission to look at it, because that can take it off of his plate.

This is very different from the Bush administration, which selectively leaked national security information, top-secret information, in order to build what I think the record shows was a dishonest case for war.

Yes, George W. Bush was lying when he said we don't torture.