The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.
In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.Collection: Dog
I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.Collection: Loyalty
The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.Collection: Party
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'Collection: Vocabulary
From his moment of victory, a kinder, gentler Donald Trump - praise for the opponent he promised to jail.Collection: Jail
Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.Collection: Politics
You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country... That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.Collection: Country
The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.Collection: President
I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections.Collection: Russia
[Nominee for the Supreme Court] will be something designed to very much please conservatives, even as they may get a little nervous on some of what he's talking about in terms of ObamaCare and infrastructure.Collection: Talking
The man at the center [Donald Trump], soon to be the world's most powerful, now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more.Collection: Dream
It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.Collection: Party
The next big decision [of Donald Trump], chief of staff. And the two names talked about the most, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus. Both allies, but they send quite a different message.Collection: Names
We now know that Mike Pence - Vice President-elect Mike Pence is going to be in charge of the transition replacing Chris Christie.Collection: President
Defeating Hillary Clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes.Collection: Campaigns
[Donald Trump] he has pulled off something that no one believed he could do.Collection: Trump
How will a President Trump bind those wounds rubbed so raw by this campaign?Collection: President
I'm very happy in my law practice and my security firm.Collection: Law
Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, you now have Republicans in charge of the White House, the Congress, a majority of governors, more governors than they've had in 100 years, more state houses than they've ever had before.Collection: Years
It turned out that Democrats did not come out in the numbers they came out for, for Barack Obama. Five million fewer voters than went for Barack Obama back in 2012. So, what went wrong?Collection: Numbers
Top Democrats laying down their markers for how they'll work with President [Donald] Trump, but who will take on the job of rebuilding the Democratic Party after Tuesday's crushing defeat put Republicans in control of the White House and congress.Collection: Crush
I work all over the world. I have a very, very full life.Collection: World
What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that?Collection: Responsibility
They [President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] have said that everybody should root for the success of President-Elect [Donald] Trump, but what about - those are the protesters protesting President-Elect Trump.Collection: Roots
I think [Republicans] would really like to rip up that [Iran nuclear agreement] and get a new one, but that's going to be very difficult. You, of course, have Russia involved in that.Collection: Rip
This is a huge decision [to choose advisers and Secretary of State]. This is where he [Donald Trump] has the least experience and will have to rely on people with experience.Collection: People
I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.Collection: Thinking
Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.Collection: Jobs
I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser].Collection: Jobs
Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be a hard choice for Mr. [Donald] Trump to make because General [Mike] Flynn he's very comfortable with.Collection: Thinking
Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot. They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.Collection: Halloween
We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?Collection: Country
I know [Rudy Giuliani] call the protesters crybabies.Collection: Crybabies
You see a lot of anger in the streets , demonstrations every night since the election [2016].Collection: Night
[Attorney General] would have to be something where I felt he really needed me and not that I'd be the only one that could do it, but maybe that I could do it a little bit different or a little bit better than somebody else.Collection: Different
Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.Collection: Two
I was going to say we saw Secretary [Hillary] Clinton reported that she believes that she would've won the election but for the interference of the FBI director James Comey.Collection: Believe
President-Elect [Donald] Trump has not ruled out seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton, says he has other priorities.Collection: Priorities
Rudy Giuliani say he thinks that a lot of protesters are professional protesters right there.Collection: Thinking
[Donald Trump] said that even though he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare, he might want to preserve some parts.Collection: Obamacare
Michael Moore put out a tweet. He said tell your senators and house members now, you want them to cease all business until they appoint a special committee on [Donald] Trump and the Russians.Collection: House