“Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.”

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It’s an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that’s part of the powers of the office.

Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: “A right to not have your data rise up and attack you.”

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that’s something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

You know, you don’t get to survive that long without making some compromises.

It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

There’s political content in almost every song we’ve ever written on some level. It colors everything.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.