My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

In politics, it's very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.