Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.