Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.