Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .

The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party.

Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional.

There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.