At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.