Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

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.

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

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

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.