The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.

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.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

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

I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.

Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.