I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?