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

Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.