The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

We're not going to have you burdening the health system.

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.