The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.