The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

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.

Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?

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

Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard to tell the difference between charters and public anymore. There's no fine line.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.