If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the region. Same thing that he's authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America's allies and friends in the region.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.