I'm not a kicker and a screamer.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

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.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.