We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

I don't think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.