You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.

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

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.