People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

return politics to the people.

If only we'd had someone who knew Iowa politics in the room with us just before the Des Moines Register debate, to warn us about the former New Jersey senator's procedural vote against flood insurance.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.