A lot of people think Barack Obama should have responded to the Russian hacking of the U.S. elections weeks ago, months ago. So these happened on his watch. There's nothing wrong with him dealing with it.

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

It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.

I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.

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.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.