They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its own press, mistreated its own civil society, and economic intimidation of its neighbors, including invasion of its neighbors.I mean, this is the one country on the face of the earth with the capacity to obliterate the United States.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

[Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

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

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.