“It was like - It was like Special Olympics or something.”

“A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”

“But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.”

“I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”

“All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.”

“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.”

“It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”