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.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.

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.