While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.

Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.

I was in the White House, probably the only administration I'll ever work for. The administration was not a success, neither at home nor abroad. The Iraq War was not a success. The condition of the average person was not enough better at the end of seven years of George Bush than it was at the beginning, and certainly it all ended in the collapse that was the Great Recession. So I feel a sense of karmic obligation to the universe because of that.

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

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.