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

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.

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

That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.