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.

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

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

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I'm proud of that.

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

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