The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.

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.

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.

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.

The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot less homogeneous than the Republican Party, where people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike.

Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically.

Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.