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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.