I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

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.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.

Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.

For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.

There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.