If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him.

The pundit world, having spent years in awe of Karl Rove, will never understand how bad he is at his White House job.

Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule.

We are in a new era, a new era where campaign rules certainly don`t apply, and who knows what other rules don`t apply.

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session`s nomination in that committee in 1986.

In pre-election polling, momentum is more important than position, and in primary polling, national numbers are useless.

America never formally surrenders, so we have to call surrender something else. In Vietnam, we called it Vietnamization.

One of the things that I see on Twitter is that people think they know what you think about things you haven't discussed.

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.

Bill O'Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs.

The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

I believe we stand strongly against having the tax code used to make the income disparity in America any worse than it already.

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.

The great thing about going to Malawi is I have no contact for at least a week with anything that's happening back in Washington.

I was an extreme leftist-anarchist. Now, I guess I'm a European socialist who's locked into American citizenship, without complaint.

The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

I tend not to look at Twitter in the morning; I try to force myself not to, for time management. I'll look at it on the way to work.

How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it`s very little.

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes the reader cry.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

I think the fact of the matter is this is a tough moment for democrats. But it`s also exciting to see so many people out there mobilized.

Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.

The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit.

The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

The rise of Donald Trump is explained not so much by the hatred of Muslims, but rather the hatred of just one Muslim. The one who is not a Muslim.

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

I have no broadcasting training. No one's ever said to me, 'This is how you read a Teleprompter.' They just pointed to it and said, 'It's over there.'

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

So many people, so many amateurs like Donald Trump believe that "I don`t recall" is an absolutely fail-safe position and you can`t get caught in perjury.

According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump`s tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.

Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist.

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going to understand it.

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they`re doing, we`re always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they`re going to do.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

Melania Trump`s husband tweeted this: "Cher, I don`t wear a rug, it`s mine, and I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn`t work."

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.

You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.

No one outside of the Black Caucus would be happy to see Alcee Hastings in a chairmanship. I first saw Alcee Hastings in his impeachment trial in the Senate.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

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