We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.

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

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is at war with Islam and maybe some of the other civilizations around the world. And I don't agree with that. But I do think there is such a thing as Western civilization. I think it starts with the Greeks and the Romans. Then it goes through the Enlightenment - or the Reformation, the Enlightenment. It goes through the scientific age. And it somewhat defines some of the cultures and mores of Europe and North America and some other countries.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.