Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.