I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

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.

Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick a fight with them. He will pick a fight with China, which would be truly cataclysmic.

Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

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 people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.