The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.

What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

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

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.