Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

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.