It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

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

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and wait for your time in office. [Donald] Trump is not a hang-back kind of guy.