Daniel Pfeiffer

“As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.”

“What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.”

“I was incredibly - I've never been more confident of anything in my life that Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump would lose by a very large margin.”

“It wasn't until Trump won that I thought back to all the things that I dealt with in the White House and that President Obama dealt with - the political forces, the changes in media and technology, the radicalization of the Right.”

“There's never been a time when we've taken progressive action and regretted it.”

“It's always great to have an enemy in politics; there's no question about that.”

“I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.”

“The Republican establishment who did not want Trump to win - either the primary, in some cases the general - they were unable to do anything that impacted the actual vote.”

“There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.”

“Any politician is always looking for a format where they can show who they really are, show their true selves.”

“What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.”

“I've always been of the view that people want to see their president periodically not taking himself too seriously.”