We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.