There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.