We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

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

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.