If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that he is gratuitously giving Democrats the national security advantage, that they're standing up for the country.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they have always been an outsider, Ann Coulter, sort of protest style, a little ruder than most Republicans. And this goes back all the way to [Ronald] Reagan.

Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.

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.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.