Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.

Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.