Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that’s right about Washington and everything that’s wrong about it.

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

What I learned from Barack Obama the person is that you can be a great leader and a good person at the same time and that the way to be the best kind of leader is to be decent to the people around you.

As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.

The greatest danger zone a president can be in is when he is being attacked on the left and the right.

Tom Daschle is one of the smartest guys in Washington.

We’re so obsessed with, ‘Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump tweet today? Did he call the press an enemy of the state?’ We’re so focused on that, we’re missing just the tremendous damage Trump is doing to the decency and moral character of this country.

I’ve always believed that the fundamental, driving strategic ethos of the Republican House leadership has been, ‘What do we do to get through the next caucus or conference without getting yelled at?’ We should never assume they have a long game.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

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’s always great to have an enemy in politics; there’s no question about that.

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

I think politics is an incredibly noble and fulfilling enterprise, and it’s the best way to do the most good for the most people.

Every legislative meeting on how to pass health care, the communications director or someone from the communications team would be a part of because we did a lot of press interviews when we were trying to pass the Affordable Care Act specifically designed to help pass the bill.

I knew Trump was gonna be a very bad president.

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.

The most famous Obama precept is, ‘No drama.’

It’s – I can’t imagine a world – the idea that every day Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefs, Donald Trump stops what he’s doing and turns on the TV and watches it while eating a Taco Bell or whatever he eats. And then she has to go into his office afterwards and get critiqued on it.

There’s a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill – doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies – to figure out the best plan.

I do worry about not just the policy consequences of Trump’s terrible policies – and they are devastating – but also just in the idea that the president is to some extent also the head of state.

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.

From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won’t extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.