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

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.

There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.