A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies that it is impossible to compete.

At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure we don't militarize and actually call for a review of military equipment in New York police forces.

The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always to win, and to change policy and politics.

So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.

It's a zero sum game: the Court either expands individual rights or expands the government's right to regulate individuals.

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

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.