Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Punctuation are like road signs

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

What does your product really mean to the people who buy it?

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.