War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

We are capitalism made flesh.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.