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

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.