They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help.

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

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

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.

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.