When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

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

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

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.