Elections are about the voters who vote in them.

It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It's that there's never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.

Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people, including the people who voted against him. He is, in effect, a tribal chieftain who has declared war on half of the country.

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.

It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

To see the Republican Party break up the way it has to lose its moral compass it is tragic, it's tragic for me personally, but I won't be part of it. I won't share a party label with people who think it's all right to put babies in internment camps.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the Whig Party, specifically around the question of race and the expansion of slavery into the western territories.