I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.