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.

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

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.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.