I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

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

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.