It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and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

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.