Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The Russians were doing a lot of rotten things, you can point to them. But the idea that if you consider what Hans Morgenthau called "I called abuse of reality," the picture of the world was almost the opposite of what they presented. But somehow this sells and is continually repeated, at least in this kind of situation.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.