There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

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

I am a very conservative person. And there are a lot of things that Donald Trump's government or administration is doing that I might agree with. The point is we have to defend the rules of the game. And one of the things that has empowered Donald Trump is that not enough people are serious enough about defending the rules of the game, maybe because they don't understand how endangered those rules are.

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.