I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

Politics should seize the imagination.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or black or often is - that means he's galvanizing a kind of mob spirit, which is also a racial mob spirit.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.