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.

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.

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

The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.

I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education policy, and she's not a stupid person.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.