The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?