In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, “Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?”

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt – but most think its bipartisan.

Nobody likes to feel like they’re on the losing side of anything.

The idea now that we’re going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he’s at a high point right now.

Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women’s health issues, including mammograms and things like that.

We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It’s actually quite the opposite. The more religious someone is, the more often they go to the mosque, the more likely they are to actually reject attacks on civilians.