Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.

The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.