The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but include Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, insist on comparing him to the incomparable leader of the British forces in country in part of - during World War II.

[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.

Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

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