If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

I'm on a government watch list. But I'm not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.