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

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the UN's going to take over' - well, they're beginning to have a case.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.