It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.

The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.

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

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

Usually, you do a shakeup because you know that you have a problem or you gaps and you're going to fill those gaps.

The people that Donald Trump is putting around him on the Cabinet suggest that he's putting together a very conservative, almost traditionally conservative Republican group around him.

When Jeb Bush came on the shows and couldn't answer questions about Iraq, and when he looked like he was unsteady, it absolutely solidified the concerns that they had had all along about his skills.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

You can handle anything.

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.