The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives.

Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.