The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

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.

I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in fact have to at some point, with any remote pretense of candor, abandon any pretense of a balanced budget.I mean, they talk about - because they are going to finance the tax cut by tax cuts. That's how they're going to do it. And I do think that the will is there right now in the Congress to act. I think they will be as close to unity as you will see on Capitol Hill this year.

Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.