The case for democracy is not esthetic.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

[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.

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

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

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

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