A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.