I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

I don't think you should limit what you read.