Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawy….

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees..

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease.".

The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the….

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent..

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to e….

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings..

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a p….

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force..

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert c….

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle..

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time….

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions..

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutorin….

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it….

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere..

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering..

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally c….

I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap….

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen..