When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.