A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.