The Elite Isn't Leading Anymore. It's Trapped.

You Can Have These Fake Engagements, These Virtual Engagements That Substitute For Actual Engagements. You Don't Have To Participate, You Can Hit A Button, Send You 200 Dollars To The Barack Obama For President Campaign And Think It's Like You Knocked On A Door. But You Didn't Knock On A Door.

I Was In The White House, Probably The Only Administration I'll Ever Work For. The Administration Was Not A Success, Neither At Home Nor Abroad. The Iraq War Was Not A Success. The Condition Of The Average Person Was Not Enough Better At The End Of Seven Years Of George Bush Than It Was At The Beginning, And Certainly It All Ended In The Collapse That Was The Great Recession. So I Feel A Sense Of Karmic Obligation To The Universe Because Of That.

We All Have More At Stake In The Rules Of The Game Than We Do In The Outcomes Of The Game. When That Changes, That's When You Begin To Lose Democracy.

I Think The Single Most Important Question Is How Do You Maximize The Number Of Children Who Grow Up In Stable Two-parent Households. We Know In All Kinds Of Ways It Makes A Huge Difference To How Kids Come Out And We Are Hardening Into A Caste Society Where Some Kids Do Better In All Kinds Of Ways Because They Have Two Parents And Others Don't.

When We Talk About Authoritarianism, We Conjure Up Out-of-date Visions From The 1930s. But We Are No More Likely To Do Authoritarian Government The Way They Did In The 1930s Then We're Likely To Address Or Talk Or Do Any Of Our Other Business In The Way They Did It In The 1930s.