If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.

I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.