In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.