Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out they've redlined it. Clearly to break up the redlining process there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die but saying that I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years four in state government eight on the national level.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper or to conciliate with dignity.

As more people rely on government programs the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Health care reform the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term was passed before we entered the world of divided government.