People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.