When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.

I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

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