[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

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.

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.

[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will be better [than Barack Obama]. But I think the problem with connecting emotionally with the people remains at large is - in a wholesale way.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

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

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.