When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

Can I say one other thing that`s very important? I`m indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we`ve had this problem that people disliked government. And the health care bill has shown reminded people and Donald Trump has shown people there is something a lot worse than government. It`s not government. That as bad as they might have thought the government was on health care, it`s now created people that the absence of government healthcare is even worse.