What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth.

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

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.