[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.

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.

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

You become great by going small thing in a great way.