[Donald] Trump is a fascist and that`s not a term I use loosely or often but he has earned it.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.