Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

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

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.