A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies that it is impossible to compete.

At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure we don't militarize and actually call for a review of military equipment in New York police forces.

The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always to win, and to change policy and politics.

So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.