My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

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.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.

A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.

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.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.