A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.