We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.