If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

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.

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

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

You have to be careful, because, in the [Donald] Trump stimulus package, there were two elements. One is the infrastructure investment program, which at this moment doesn't have the financing spelled out in any effective form.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.