We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

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.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.