It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.

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

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with one company or another to do so.

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.