Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

...the crazy never die.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.