Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.