World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.