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.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.