The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. "Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes." "Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person." "Well, you look like a person." "No it's all done with mirrors, trust me!"

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.