No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

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

Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.