Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

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 a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

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