I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I'm a pro-horserace guy.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.