"The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff."

"The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job."

"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

"Character matters leadership descends from character."

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich."

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."