Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.