If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

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.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.