Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.

I'm not a kicker and a screamer.

Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.

We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.