The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in preparation and avoidance of natural disasters is worth $15 that is spent in relief. But there's no political payoff for preparation. So, who benefits? I mean, the governor or senator or the president? Bill Clinton at Oklahoma City, his performance there helped him enormously. And there really hasn't been any regulation that would, in fact, interfere with environmental disaster.

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

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.