If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

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

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.

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.