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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

If anything, I'm to the left of Obama.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

There are a lot of undecideds in this country that are hopefully right of center, not left of center.

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.