We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.

I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.

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.

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

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.