Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.