I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.