Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

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