Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.