“I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about an...” — Jim Cooper Quote

“I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.”

“In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.”

“Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.”

“Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.”

“Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.”

“Anything to make a difference and to seek consensus on an issue is something that I feel strongly about.”