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“They shook down Eric Adams. That's my, that's a direct accusation that happened in public. They shook down Eric. They shook down Eric Adams because they could put him in his pocket.”

“Doge to me is a It would be great if somebody tried it, but I see this as much more of a destruction of state capacity and a hack and slash operation.”

“So what I'm saying is that You can imagine a world where we're having tremendous productivity increases that are not being tracked. What you would imagine to see in that world, though, is the reason we care about productivity increases is that they grow the ec…”

“My book Abundance with Derek Thompson is about the tendency Democrats have to subsidize things where they are choking off the supply of the thing they want people to have more of.”

“And the cost of creating housing in California market rate is two X in California, what it is in Texas. But when you get into that publicly subsidized housing, where you have all these new standards and rules and regulations being triggered by the addition of …”

“One thing that we, I think, have found is that inventing cool new software actually is not the answer. That in order for a lot of these cool new software companies to begin to change their markets, workflow is much, much tougher than people realize. And so the…”

“I don't just think we want to reform the immigration system. I don't just think we want to find a way to create a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, but I think we really want to increase flows to this country by a quite large amount.”

“There are going to be people who look at this and the next round of ambitious young Republican politicians, and they're going to take parts of Trumpism without Trump, right? They're going to professionalize it. They're going to do it in a way that it is more a…”

“So Trump's innovation, so far as there is one, is that valence of media coverage doesn't really matter. It's not how it, what matters is not what how the media covers you. It's whether the media covers you. And he's willing to absorb a tremendous amount of inc…”

“And as that happens, as we have less control over the platforms on which we publish, I actually do worry about the way it will choke off innovation.”

“Usually when an idea is good, you don't need people jumping back and forth on it so often, going between these tariffs are a bad idea, but they're a smart negotiating ploy, to these tariffs plus are an actually great idea, and you should all calm down.”

“They're going to begin to build fortresses and deals and partnerships and approaches that make sure they are less exposed to our ability to wield this power against them in the future.”

“I think too much of our regulation is precautionary, as opposed to being able to let people move quickly, and make decisions in the real world, and then go back and see how they worked out.”

“As my career has progressed, now I run Vox I have to write in a way where the writing has to have more authority to it. I can't just be wrong all the time. Or if I am wrong, it has to be wrong in socially acceptable, reputational protecting ways. And that's ac…”

“You can't do all of these things at once, and it needs to be very stable. If you're going to get companies to do these long-term CapEx investment decisions that take decades to play out.”

“Environmental review, which now take on average three and a half to four and a half years.”

“California high-speed rail, where it had 12 years of environmental review, was not, in my view, a good idea.”

“Early on, I was writing, as a lot of people were back then, about the Iraq war, and my opinions on that were disastrously wrong and bad.”

“Now there are zero crossovers like that. So there's zero Democrats now who are more conservative than any congressional Republicans.”

“If you read these things like in Japan, adult diapers are now outselling children's diapers.”

“We had ninety-nine million Facebook video plays in, what was it, February.”