What a great performance from Murray.

BBC: Oscars panel: Debra Tysall

Certainly a great deal of preparation goes into a debate performance, but most of what a politician says up there on the stage is extemporaneous.

CNN: 'The Bush Dyslexicon' author Mark Crispin Miller

And after the first debate he watched his performance, he looked at what he did well -- which was answering a great number of questions about everything from taxes to Medicare -- he looked at what he could have done better.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House