We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

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

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

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

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

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.

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.