The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.