With a weak and rotting core, you don’t have much of a foreign policy. You’re discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what’s the best course of action for the U.S.–China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of Earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.

This is a revolution, but we’re not afraid of revolutions when they are peaceful, well-thought and meant to last.

I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job. My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.

I’ll be honest with you: When you're talking about cybersecurity, a lot of it is classified and we're not going to provide it.

Do you want to have a handshake?

As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps.

They never invited us for dinner, then at the last minute they realized that optically it wasn’t playing very well in public for them, so they put out a statement that we didn’t have dinner because I was tired.

But it’s all personal, because all politics isn’t local, as Tip O’Neill said. All politics is personal with President Trump.