The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

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

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.