I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

[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.

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