Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.