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.

Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In my 20s, it was the Vietnam War literature of novelists like Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, and Tobias Wolff, and then nonfiction such as "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan and "The Best and Brightest" by David Halberstam . Those are the two best histories of Vietnam.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.

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

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

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