"The problem is that each party has become more rigid in my own lifetime of covering this. When I came to Washington in the early 1980s, I could go to back ventures like Jack Kemp or Newt Gingrich on the Republican side. They had all these weird ideas they were trying to push on leadership. That doesn't happen [anymore]--the leaders control everything now. The nature of the parties has changed."

-David Brooks

 

 

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens

can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead