America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

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

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.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.