These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?

I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.

[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave it to FOX News. Also, we have this extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign that they hacked.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.