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.

I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.