Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

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.

The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.

I'm not a kicker and a screamer.