There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.