Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

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.

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

I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.