In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.