I generally believe in polls. Scientific polls are accurate.

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.