It's counterintuitive but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.