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Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Good government is good politics.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.