If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

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

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

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.