Confidence is the public face of competence.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.