In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

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.

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.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

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