"Yes, insofar as, generally their rhetoric has been friendly, yes."
"the country has not embraced the vision that Donald Trump has articulated because a majority of Americans, in fact, voted for Hillary Clinton and he believed that he would have won the election had he..."
"we should have done this, we didn't do it, we have to do it now."
"General Flynn, fine intelligence officer but he's shown himself in this campaign to be a kind of incendiary figure not just because of this attitudes on Islam, which he refuses to acknowledge is a fai..."
"if you are an immigrant, if you are a minority in the country, Jeff Sessions as attorney general is going to be unsettling, because he's been one of the leading proponents against or a proponents for ..."
"I found the appointment of Reince Priebus' as the chief of staff somewhat reassuring because so -- well I disagree with Reince on a lot of things, he is someone who has an appreciation for the institu..."
"I wish he had taken a little more time. But, you know, it is not right to say he hasn't moved fast enough."
"These were retrenching appointments. These were a statement to the base and the world that the statements I made in the campaign are now going to be carried forward into an administration."
"You cannot simply assume that you are going to have enough votes among your base and that you can write off swaths of the country."
"Because he doesn't have a track record on a lot of this, just the statements of a campaign, who he surrounds himself as secretary of state, as the national security advisor?"
"We all have to hope for success. It's the success of the country but there are a lot of people who say well, gee, they didn't give Barack Obama that chance."