Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically.

[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.