I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or black or often is - that means he's galvanizing a kind of mob spirit, which is also a racial mob spirit.

You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

Politics should seize the imagination.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises with the opposition in the back rooms. That's what she did in Congress. It's what I imagine she'll try to do in the White House.