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

There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.

I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.

People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.