Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.

One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who have really been suffering in the last 20 years, and who need to be prepared and be given time to prepare for a transition to a very different type of employment that we may moving on to in the coming decades.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.