There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.