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.

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

If Donald Trump is just tweeting about a union guy, then he's just being the bully we have seen. But if he uses the power of the presidency to back up some of those tweets and he's really, really coming down with a hammer on people he doesn't like using the power of the presidency, then we're seeing something very new and very different.

A lot of people think Barack Obama should have responded to the Russian hacking of the U.S. elections weeks ago, months ago. So these happened on his watch. There's nothing wrong with him dealing with it.

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 .