Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.