If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.

The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.