Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles about how human beings interact. Economics is very useful, and I studied economics in graduate school. But without understanding the social and organizational context of economics, it becomes a theory without any groundwork.

I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.