I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.

Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.