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

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

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.

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.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.