"It's very important to start quickly, make a big impact in the first 15 minutes."
"He needs to win people over who have profound questions as to whether he has the temperament and the experience to be president of the United States and the mastery of material."
"If Donald Trump truly hasn't prepped in the traditional way for this, it would be an extraordinary achievement to perform well under this kind of pressure."
"Tonight is the final exam."
"One of the things that was interesting earlier this week, 'The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll came out and they asked this question in July and they asked it in September, big change versus steady leade..."
"Yes. And I think it works on a number of different levels. It speaks to this level of intolerance and divisiveness that bothers some of this college educated white voters but it's motivational for m..."
"We knew within 10, 15 minutes that we had lost the debate to Mitt Romney because the media reaction and the punditry were pounding us on Twitter."
"If people left there saying, you know, I think he is a plausible president. I could see him in that office, that would be a real problem for her."
"I think he's got the vote of those people who are aching for a political revolution."
"One of the things that John didn't address here because these were the most recent polls were states of Colorado, state of Virginia. These are states that used to be battleground states, where Hillary..."
"This campaign has resources that far exceed anything that we have with public polls in terms of analytics and other tools that -- and they are making day-to-day judgments as to where they are."