I think the political reality for the Democratic Party is, you know, there are two sides. There's one side saying that we weren't liberal enough and another side saying we're too liberal. I think they're both right.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

We have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work.

If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

"I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.