The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.

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 do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise power and control people's minds, or is he a 5-year-old who has an ego that needs to be fed, and the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself, and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.