The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.