Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country with common ancestors. And reviving the civics of America and the idea that we're going to be united, at least not right now, but in some common future, and talking in that hopeful way that Martin Luther King did, that Abraham Lincoln did, seems to me that's the way.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

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

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

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.