To write well, study writers. I would guide you to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and to Coming into the Country by John McPhee. McPhee is among the best who craft nonfiction in literary style.

Impeachment is a political act, not a legal one. It is the job of the House of Representatives to decide whether a president should be “impeached,” which is the equivalent of an indictment. If so, then the Senate puts the president on trial to determine whether he should be removed from office.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what’s right.

Relying on one point of view is dangerous, unethical and foolish.

United We Stand” has never been the secret to America’s success. We are an amalgam of all the peoples of the world. “Divided We Stand” is our strength. With all our diversity, in all our languages and cultures, we should agree on one big idea – each of us belongs, each of us contributes and each of us must be heard. We are all woven into the tapestry of stars. That is a fight worth winning. And a truth worth telling.

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don’t.

You have to take risks on policy. You can’t be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

In the minutia, you will find richness, texture and truth.

I’m always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

We should be profoundly skeptical when one party claims certainty and blames the other for our problems. That’s a con. You know life isn’t like that. That’s why we invented democracies in the first place.