It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

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.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.

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.