"If reporters can't trust the information that they're getting from the press secretary, if they don't feel like they're getting real, honest, true facts, then it makes it much harder for them, moving forward, to do their jobs."
"You cannot do that. That is a bad idea."
"It's not anti-Trump."
"There is a certain obligation on the part of the press secretary and the administration when they stand in front of a podium and they are talking not just to reporters but the American people to tell ..."
"This is our rite of passage in our democracy and it's a distinguishing feature of our democracy."
"All politics is local and the Mexican President Nieto suffered greatly for that meeting with Trump down in Mexico because he didn't challenge him on the wall."
"The fact is the debate is much different now because of what Barack Obama did."
"I think the interviews with the nominees were substantive discussions of issues."
"I think he's deeply concerned about democracy. And when he thinks that there are fundamental Democratic principles at stake, that go to discrimination, free press, and so on, he's going to speak out."
"You know he said, in his farewell address, that he urged young people to hitch themselves to something larger than themselves."
"It is a moment that calls for humility if you're the president because you did not win the popular vote."