I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close the door and say you are beyond redemption.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

My Love is Undefined <3

Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.