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

The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.

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

You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to do everything he said he was going to do, it`s that he has no idea of his job as president. Plus, the people who have been up close and realized that he has no idea how to do this job are leaking like sieves.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.