The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

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.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

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

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

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

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy