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.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would hope, and, if I didn't, what can I do tomorrow to be a little better, I do think we can improve. We get better at life as we get older.

What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.

Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to be affected by its gravitational pull.

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.