Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.

Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.

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.

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.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

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.

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