I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

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.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

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.

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four out of five doctors agree that reducing cholesterol reduces your risk of a heart attack, Gallup is like the fifth doctor.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.