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The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them, some large portion of them, seem to have turned against Donald Trump.
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U. S. ," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order. "
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.
If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.
Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.
We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.
Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.
I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.
Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.
We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.