Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.