In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.