I'm co-head of municipal research for Nuveen Asset Management with responsibility for approximately $80 billion of assets. I am a married father of two: a four year old girl and a newborn boy.

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

-H.L. Mencken

"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."

"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."

"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."

-Thomas Hobbes