You're Never Really Out Of Politics.

I'm Very Struck By What You Can Do In A Classroom. I've Got 200 Students. You Don't Do Partisan Politics In A Classroom, That's Not Appropriate. But You Want To Give Them A Strong Sense That These Are The Issues That Matter.

You Can't Get Back To Power By Defining Your Project In Negative Terms. But It Helps To Have Somebody In Office Who Represents The Opposite Of What You Believe.

Memory Is The Only Afterlife I Have Ever Believed In. But The Forgetting Inside Us Cannot Be Stopped. We Are Programmed To Betray.

There's Intense National Feeling In America That Could Be Called Patriotism.

An Intellectual May Be Interested In Ideas And Policies For Their Own Sake, But A Politician's Interest Is Exclusively In The Question Of Whether An Idea's Time Has Come.