If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal.

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

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could be in competing for power because we know if we're all barbaric as we could be, the whole country and the whole society falls apart.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.