Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.