Look, The Media Are Trapped By Changes

There Are A Lot Of Wonderful People In America Who Shouldn't Be On The Supreme Court - And A Lot Who Should Be On The Court Who Aren't Such Wonderful People.

Donald Trump, As A Businessman, He's Not Much Of A Builder And He's Not Much Of Dealmaker And He Certainly Isn't Very Good At Making Expenses Line Up With Income. But He Is A Marketing Genius. He Must Have Seen An Empty Market Niche That No One But Him Filled.

I Always Believed As A Speechwriter That If You Could Persuade The President To Commit Himself To Certain Words, He Would Feel Himself Committed To The Ideas That Underlay Those Words. And The Big Shock To Me Has Been That Although The President Said The Words, He Just Did Not Absorb The Ideas. And That Is The Root Of, Maybe, Everything.

You've Worked Hard All Your Life. You've Paid Medicare Taxes For Almost 30 Years. But Under The Republican Plan, Medicare Won't Be There For You. Instead Of Medicare As It Exists Now, Under The Republican Plan You'll Get A Voucher That Will Pay As Little As Half Your Medicare Costs When You Turn 65—and As Little As A Quarter In Your 80s. And All So That Millionaires And Billionaires Can Have A Huge Tax Cut.

Democracy Requires You To Learn How To Lose As Well As How To Exercise Power When You Win. And That Requires Restraint All Around. One Of The Reasons It Works Is Because When You Win You Don't Do Things That Are So Upsetting To The Losers That They Feel Like They Have Less, They Have More To Gain By Turning Over The System.