I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.