I don’t think that it’s healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that’s the standard]…you look at French film, Spanish film – they’re a little more open to quirks and human nature – that we’re not all symmetrical, not all the same shape…we need more of that.

The Smithsonian has always been able to rise above the political moment. I don’t see anything that stops that process.

It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.

Like all great love stories, they never end.

In a democracy, that’s the only realistic path to Net Zero. Consent, not imposition. Honesty, not obfuscation. Pragmatism, not ideology.

In the past, human progress had to come at the cost of the environment. If we wanted energy, we had to burn wood or we had to burn fossil fuels. If we wanted to grow more food, we had to expand farmland, often at the cost of forests. But technology and innovation means we're very quickly decoupling these impacts, such that this conflict is no longer true.

The obligation of the government to protect the public health, safety, morals and general welfare.

Good leaders are always at the ready, but not always at the front.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.