Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.