So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the way they did in the 1930s then we're likely to address or talk or do any of our other business in the way they did it in the 1930s.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.