Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who have really been suffering in the last 20 years, and who need to be prepared and be given time to prepare for a transition to a very different type of employment that we may moving on to in the coming decades.

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?

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

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.