Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

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.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.