To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

My father has been a rock for me every since.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.