The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

The madman theory can work, but it only works if it's strategic. And I think one of the problems that President Trump faces is people don't really know how much strategy is here and how much is he just sort of talking off the top of his head. And I think North Korea is a really classic case of a potentially insoluble problem, a problem that you have to manage.

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really.