"Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people."

"People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul."

"You have got to be loyal to people beneath you."

"Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers and was going to put aside the old debates. So, he was able to get a lot of moderates and a lot of independents."

"When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate gets a little different."

"We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other."

"People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles."