In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.