Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.

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

The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.