If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure