Thomas J. Ridge: “We need to be preemptive in anticipation that one or the other or both might occur, and we are not prepared for that…”

I think the Mayor of Chicago has handled it beautifully. She said she wanted to be cautiously optimistic, it certainly was a very thoughtful and kind response in spite of the declarations from the White House.

Either we make these effective tools or we replace them.

I'm right now, I'm more concerned about... trying to do public anecdote to these un-American, unpresidential, unsubstantiated -- there's no historical antecedent. It's corrosive. It's undermining the legitimacy, sowing seeds of doubt in…

I want a full-throated condemnation, an aggressive tweetstorm that condemns these men, their actions and everybody that thinks and would act like them.