In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.

Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

This is me. Take it or leave it.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

Do what you want, do what you need to get done. Find a way to do it.

It takes all kinds to make a world go round.