Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.

For the Sanders supporters, there's a thought that the people who are well off are doing really great, and the system is systematically unfair, and that's a very deeply felt and serious objection to the current situation.

Sometimes, the word 'voluntary' is a little complicated.