There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

The world of politics is divided between people who are introverts - who lose a little bit of energy out of each interaction they have so that by the time the day ends, after 1,000 interactions, they're exhausted - and people like Bill Clinton who are extroverted - who get a little bit of energy from each interaction.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.