It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.