The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

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

I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education policy, and she's not a stupid person.

Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.