Mike McCurry quotes:

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.