I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.

I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his commitment to the redevelopment of American manufacturing and industrial jobs, providing jobs for the constituency that was so important in electing him.

The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.