“Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but con...” — Jim Cooper Quote

“Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.”

“True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.”

“First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.”

“Love and life are the things that are always going to fascinate me, because it's the one place where I feel like I'm completely clueless, in a beautiful way.”

“I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.”

“If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that weird. It is very weird, but compared to that stuff, it's not that different.”