Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.