Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.

Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever been wrong.

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.

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.

All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.