I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really do think that heed must be paid, and when people make a decision, those who are on the other side, including me, accept it, for that reason.

George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

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.

Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.

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

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.