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

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.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education policy, and she's not a stupid person.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.