Daniel E. Lungren: “But I would also say we implemented three strikes and you are out, we implemented a victim's bill of rights, we…”

A healthy skepticism of government... has been replaced in some cases with outright cynicism, and that is in fact harmful to our democracy.

I would argue that under the Constitution it is not.

And the answer--I think we've given an answer to the question. The question is, how do we remediate that damage that was done?

Madison said it best. He talked about if--if men were angels, we wouldn't need government.