We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.