Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers and was going to put aside the old debates. So, he was able to get a lot of moderates and a lot of independents.

I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us is just a ridiculous notion.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.