It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small number of very rich people, but by reaching out to a very large number of citizens.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.