It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we`ve never seen is a bad thing.

Where I come from, no one settled their disagreements with bets, because no one of us had any money to bet.

I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.

The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.

I would prefer the teacher to focus on teaching and have a security officer worry about keeping the kids safe.

The question was, have you heard from anyone on the [Donald] Trump transition team? We have not been contacted.

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

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

I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.

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.

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

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

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

Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.

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

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

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

We're having this conflict in Syria is because [Vladimir] Putin wants to take Iranian oil and channel that oil up to Europe.

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.

Even on Ben Carson, he's not exactly steeped in housing policy, but his statements on the issue have also been very conservative.

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.

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

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

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.

Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.

Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.

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

We focused so much on saying, "Don't vote for them and here's why" and we didn't tell the American people "Vote for us and here's why."

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

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.

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

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.

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