One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not sure the words have roots. They are emanations of his psyche, but has he thought it through? Is there an argument, is there a policy implication?

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.