If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

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.

Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.