There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

I like [ Rick] Santorum personally and respect him, but you wouldn't say that he was really that strong of an opponent. At the end of the day it wasn't like [Ronald] Reagan running against [George] Bush, or [George W.] Bush against [John] McCain, even. It's sort of surprising that Romney had as much trouble as he did, and I think it shows a weakness in appeal to those voters.

If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

[Donald Trump] will try to renegotiate the trade deals a little bit.