[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.