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

There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate. Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. Sanders and Warren are much less so. And they have got to figure out which side the party is on, if they're going to have a clear message. I think this is probably one you probably can't straddle.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.