If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

If Donald Trump is just tweeting about a union guy, then he's just being the bully we have seen. But if he uses the power of the presidency to back up some of those tweets and he's really, really coming down with a hammer on people he doesn't like using the power of the presidency, then we're seeing something very new and very different.