America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.