When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

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

Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.