Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.