What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it under any circumstances lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next I will have to sort out.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

Whatever it is that the government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.