Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

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.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.