No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.

You are what you think.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

Economics is not brain surgery.