Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

The terrorists are going to believe the worst about America. They think we spy on everything. They think we kill everyone. They think - they don't believe that we believe in democracy, right? They don't believe we have limits on our government.

We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one who talked about, you know, "I'm a born-again Christian. I pray all the time. I do this," etc.

Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.