When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you read more

When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.

A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and read more

A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is read more

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from read more

The case is a prototype of the new post-Afghanistan network - a little bit of everything: native-born radicals, immigrants from Morocco, travel to places like Saudi Arabia, connection to operations like Madrid. It's like handling a number of particles of mercury, toxic in themselves and even more toxic when they come together.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving read more

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to read more

This glorious raid, like the others before it in New York, Washington and Madrid, has moved our battle right to the enemy's doorstep.

It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those read more

It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.

I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play there. I had read more

I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play there. I had so much fun. When I got up there and realized where I was and thought about all the famous musicians who played there — it gave me chills.

The city was extremely helpful. The Planning Department they really walked us through (the process).

The city was extremely helpful. The Planning Department they really walked us through (the process).