We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

[Donna] Brazile was giving [Donald] Trump no quarter.

I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department.

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.

Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.