I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

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