I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.

A huge constituency, such as Hispanics, is not 100 percent Democratic.

Donald Trump is going to have to live in the real world in which Vladimir Putin is exactly who he presents himself to be, and Putin is extremely skilled. He's not going to make it very easy for the United States or Germany. And he's going to test Trump.

The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons had to know that she was going to run for president. Why did they feel it necessary to make tens of millions of dollars with speaking engagements? They must have known that it would look grotesque. The word for it is "buckraking." It's beyond me. I don't understand it.

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.