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

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

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

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

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

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.