The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

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.

We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.

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.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

Nothing works on the campaign trail like attacks on candidates for bad attendance. It alienates people on both sides of every issue and reflects a callous disregard of the work of the people. The feeble argument that "I'm running for president" isn't much of a rebuttal: George W. Bush finds time to be president, and he's running too.