You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.
I've covered a lot of presidential campaigns.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am the lump of coal in Mrs. Clinton's stocking, and she desperately hopes she does not run against me.
All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.
Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.
Election days were drinking days.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.
Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.
Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.
Anything can happen when people run for office.
I think I have a big advantage. But it's certainly a three-person race. And you have a couple of other people that are very talented there too. So we have a five-man race. And I think that it's going to be not easy. I have a big advantage. But a long way from being won.
As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.
In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.
Political conventions are as fascinating as a circus or a hanging.
For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.
Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix.
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
Most people who run for political office have another job.
