I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.