Morality binds and blinds.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.