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.

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view of how the world should be governed. And so they had a lot of things that we didn't appreciate going for them as time went by.