We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.

You know what the Russians are saying is that they have an historic relationship with - with Crimea, and they're saying the Crimean legislature has voted now to have a referendum, and they're saying what the government in Kiev did was illegal.

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.