It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

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.

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

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

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.