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Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew Jackson wanted to wipe them out.

'The Wire' is, by far, my favorite television show of all time. And I've always said that my aspirations for 'Luke Cage' was that it would be 'The Wire' of the Marvel television universe.

'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.

In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.

I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is so comically wired, though.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

During the day, I don't read too much of the blog traffic, but then at night, I read transcripts of all of the network packages, and then I watch the wires and some of the political blogs.

Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

I usually do my writing in a very nice room, my studio, which is in the attic of our house in Wisconsin. But the nice thing about writing is that I can do it in many places. So sometimes I'll write in coffee shops.

Wisconsin is a very liberal state and a very conservative state. We're the home of the progressive movement. We're the home of the Republican Party.

Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.