Paul Begala

When you're out of power, the party chairman matters a lot.

What Mr. Trump is doing, and what your comment does, is you scare tactics to incite fear and say that this animal -- is representative of that whole population.

Immigrant population has a lower crime rate in the American born population. That's a tragic case. We want to punish that person. We want to drive them out.

That's heart breaking. That is monstrous. That's not the kind of America I think most people want.

He's only president, he's president in part because of leaks, because of a foreign intelligence agency hacking the Democratic Party.

Their big fear now, I guarantee, is no longer what did the president know and when did he know it? That's bad enough. What will General Flynn do now?

The White House has to get ahead of this. The problem is they haven't been forthcoming, and that's really hard to regain credibility when you've lost it in the first day of a scandal.

You cut him loose, Mr. President, you solve one problem right now. You know, Maggie Haberman gets off your back for a day.

What does this say about the president? And if he fires General Flynn because Flynn has ties to the Russians and has been dishonest to the country? Wait a minute, what does that say about Donald Trump?

It's appalling for him to use the power of the most powerful position on earth to try to bludgeon a corporation.

He's trying to undermine the free press, he's trying to undermine the independent judiciary, personal attack on this judge who ruled against him.

The president is clearly a highly intelligent man.

Anytime a president waves the bloody shirt of terrorism, it moves up; the American people panic and Trump is an expert at manipulating fear.

I want to keep this fair. I want the executive branch to be able to make national security decisions without having --

I think this ban is terrible, I think his policy is terrible, he's off, I don't even like his hair.

You don't blow up that relationship if you care about America.

He seems to be much more pro-Russia, which is our adversary, than he is pro-ally.

Australia is one of our closest allies and always have arguments, that's fine. But this is really vexing to me.

The oath is to the Constitution not to the president.

This is amateur hour. It is really dangerous.

I think the United States has a right to call them on that and to complain.

What they're doing is condemning millions of poor women who are having unwanted pregnancies or cancer or STDs. I mean this is a public health crisis.

Trump knows that Putin and Comey swung the election to him.

This president is defending the hostile foreign powers and attacking those who have devoted their lives to trying to protect us.

This is -- he is legitimating this process of transition in 15 days when he's sworn it. It's the ultimate legitimization. He will be our president.