I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.