Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.