I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

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.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

It was a dark story.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.