The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous enemies. We will look back on this moment where we thought Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were sort of close as a moment of bitter irony, when they get into a schoolyard display against each other, amping up each other's worst tendencies and putting the two countries in some sort of scary position.

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

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.

As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.

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?"

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact that Trump is a detail-oriented person. I find his interviews amazing. He's actually kind of remarkably candid.