If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

This is a massive crisis for the press, and the degree now that the press revs up its scrutiny and its opposition to Donald Trump, as opposed to being neutral and fair to Donald Trump - they will compound their own problem, because Republicans don't trust them, independents largely don't trust them, and the press risks just being credible to only one party in America.