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.

On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.

Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.

What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest.

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

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