In his own words from his book, "Losing America":

"I hold a deep personal appreciation for the bedrock importance of our Constitution and the wisdom of its framers. Only the Constitution's genius, I believe, affords our people the powers and perogatives that truly keep us a free nation, most centrally through maintenance of the checks and balances and separation of powers.

Such long study has made me painfully aware of why lives have been lost throughout history to protect these essential principles. For a long while I have viewed with dismay each and every assault on the separation of powers, and the continual grasping and groping for more and more power by president of both political parties. But never with such alarm as now. How can we be so comatose as a nation when so many damaging and radical changes are at once thrust apon us?"