When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.