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.

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

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

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

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.