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.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

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.

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.