All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.