Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.

By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox