It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.

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

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

World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.