I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?

Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.

I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.