The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.

Never underestimate people.

You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true.

These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.