I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.

I don`t know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.

[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of the consorting that he did around Washington.

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.